EP1494920B1 - Dispositif de dosage de produits coulants - Google Patents

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EP1494920B1
EP1494920B1 EP03725041A EP03725041A EP1494920B1 EP 1494920 B1 EP1494920 B1 EP 1494920B1 EP 03725041 A EP03725041 A EP 03725041A EP 03725041 A EP03725041 A EP 03725041A EP 1494920 B1 EP1494920 B1 EP 1494920B1
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Berthold Lingenhoff
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B3/00—Packaging plastic material, semiliquids, liquids or mixed solids and liquids, in individual containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, or jars
    • B65B3/26—Methods or devices for controlling the quantity of the material fed or filled
    • B65B3/30—Methods or devices for controlling the quantity of the material fed or filled by volumetric measurement
    • B65B3/32—Methods or devices for controlling the quantity of the material fed or filled by volumetric measurement by pistons co-operating with measuring chambers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B39/00—Nozzles, funnels or guides for introducing articles or materials into containers or wrappers
    • B65B39/12—Nozzles, funnels or guides for introducing articles or materials into containers or wrappers movable towards or away from container or wrapper during filling or depositing
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01F—MEASURING VOLUME, VOLUME FLOW, MASS FLOW OR LIQUID LEVEL; METERING BY VOLUME
    • G01F11/00—Apparatus requiring external operation adapted at each repeated and identical operation to measure and separate a predetermined volume of fluid or fluent solid material from a supply or container, without regard to weight, and to deliver it
    • G01F11/02—Apparatus requiring external operation adapted at each repeated and identical operation to measure and separate a predetermined volume of fluid or fluent solid material from a supply or container, without regard to weight, and to deliver it with measuring chambers which expand or contract during measurement
    • G01F11/021—Apparatus requiring external operation adapted at each repeated and identical operation to measure and separate a predetermined volume of fluid or fluent solid material from a supply or container, without regard to weight, and to deliver it with measuring chambers which expand or contract during measurement of the piston type

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  • the invention relates to a metering device for flowable products, in particular dairy products, according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • the invention is concerned with the problem of providing a metering device for flowable products, which allows the processing of products of all conventional types, especially of products with large lumpy components with little technical effort.
  • the metering device allows a product feed from the outside into the metering chamber.
  • the metering cylinder is guided axially displaceable in the outer feed cylinder, so that a variable size of the inlet opening forming gap region is possible for the suction of the product in the inner metering and thus products of different consistency and with coarse ingredients, such as fruits, without adverse effect can be sucked in for dosing.
  • a generally designated 1 filling device for dairy products is shown, which has a closed by a wall 2 product reservoir 3.
  • this container 3 is a series arrangement of metering devices 4 are provided, which are distinguished according to their different operating positions only by the names 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 and 4.5 below and thereby have the same structure.
  • metering devices 4 are provided for filling of respective cups 5, these and the parts of the filling device 1 as part of a form, fill and seal machine (not shown in detail) can be provided.
  • the metering device 4 shown in more detail in Fig. 2 to 4 is provided with a metering cylinder 6, a coaxially arranged in this valve cylinder 7 and an annular metering piston 8 which is displaceable within a running between the metering cylinder 6 and the valve cylinder 7 annulus 9 so that the metering piston 8 occupies an upper intake position or a lower discharge position in accordance with the timing control of the filling device 1 and thereby discharges a respective amount of product from the product reservoir 3.
  • the metering piston 8 divides the annular space 9 in an upper, connected in a passage portion 10 to the product reservoir 3 part and in a lower, the metering chamber 11 for the product forming part.
  • the metering chamber 11 in the metering cylinder 6 is closed at the bottom except for a coaxial, cylindrical discharge opening 12 through a mouthpiece 13.
  • a central valve piston 15 is provided, which is axially displaceable between an engaging in the discharge opening 12 of the mouthpiece 13 lower closing position (metering device 4.2) in an upper release position (metering device 4.3).
  • This construction of the metering device 4 which is referred to as a piston metering device, is known in principle from EP 0 286 785 A2.
  • valve cylinder 7 is combined with the valve piston 15 to a central unit, so that the kontruktive effort in the production of the respective modules by simpler items, especially rotating parts, can be substantially reduced.
  • the assembly consisting of the metering cylinder 6, the metering piston 8 and the particular one-piece cylinder-piston unit 7, 15 is arranged coaxially in an outer feed cylinder 16 connected to the product reservoir 3 on the upper side, extending between a bottom plate 17 of the product reservoir 3 and a provided with the mouthpiece 13 retaining plate 18 of the filling device 1 extends.
  • feed cylinder 16 With the upper side near the passage area 10 with the bottom plate 17 connected feed cylinder 16 is provided as an annulus around the metering cylinder 6 extending feed chamber 20.
  • the metering cylinder 6 In the region of this inlet space 20, the metering cylinder 6 is displaceable according to an arrow direction D from a lower closed position (according to metering device 4.1, FIG. 2) into an upper open position (metering device 4.3, FIG. 3).
  • the metering cylinder 6 comes into frontal engagement with the mouthpiece 13, so that the inner metering chamber 11 is closed to the surrounding annular inlet space 20 out.
  • the metering chamber 11 In the upper open position of the metering device 4.3 (FIG. 3), the metering chamber 11 communicates with the surrounding annular inlet chamber 20 within the inlet cylinder 16 via an inlet opening 21, this inlet opening 21 extending between the front end of the metering cylinder 6 and the mouthpiece 13.
  • the metering device 4.1 shows the valve piston 15 in its upper open position, in which the discharge opening 12 of the mouthpiece 13 is released to the metering 11. At the same time, the metering cylinder 6 is in its lower contact position on the mouthpiece 13, so that the connection between the inlet chamber 20 and the metering chamber 11 is interrupted.
  • the metering piston 8 is displaced by means of an advancing movement illustrated by an arrow A so that the product located in the metering chamber 11 is displaced in a discharge direction represented by several arrows P and discharged through the discharge opening 12 into the cup 5 via the mouthpiece 13 becomes.
  • the metering piston 8 reaches the lower Ausschubleton shown in accordance with metering device 4.2, in which a pre-calculated according to the metering chamber 11 and the stroke of the metering 8 product amount is discharged into the cup 5.
  • the valve piston 15 can be effective, this being displaced in an arrow K direction and the discharge opening 12 in the region of the mouthpiece 13 is completed.
  • Fig. 3 The subsequent phase of movement is shown in Fig. 3, wherein the remaining now in its closed position in the mouthpiece 13 valve piston 15 is clear.
  • the dosing piston 8 is displaced simultaneously or successively upwards by initiation of a movement according to arrow direction D of the dosing cylinder 6 and by initiation of a movement according to arrow B.
  • the gap-shaped region of the inlet opening 21 is released to a repeated To reach product intake.
  • the invention provided displacement of the metering cylinder 6 (arrow D) is advantageous because the distance S in the annular inlet opening 21 can be adapted to the consistency of the product with little effort.
  • the gap S can be kept low, for example, for liquid products and increased accordingly for pasty products.
  • this adjustment is particularly applicable when products are to be filled with solid ingredients, such as yogurt with fruits.
  • the gap S can be adapted to the size of the fruits, so that unintentional bruising of the fruits or their jamming in the gap area are reliably avoided.
  • the dosing cylinder 6 is lowered counter to its stroke D in largely reverse order to the above movements and thus the connection between inlet 20 and dosing 11 interrupted, the front edge of the dosing 6 as a cutting edge with the mouthpiece 13 cooperating profiling can have.
  • the valve piston 15 can be raised counter to its lowering K, so that the discharge opening 12 is released in the region of the mouthpiece 13 for the filling phase shown on the hand of the metering 4.1 ( Figure 2) and the intended filling operation by lowering the metering piston 8 takes place.
  • a metering device 4.5 after a longer use of the filling device 1 required for their cleaning movement phase of the modules is illustrated in principle.
  • the cleaning is provided that the valve piston 15 and the metering cylinder 6 are axially displaceable in an upper service position, at the same time the metering piston 8 is displaced in a lower service position.
  • the valve piston 15 is fully retracted into the metering cylinder 6, so that these two parts are located at a distance above the metering piston 8 and thus in a gap E a not shown detergent, for example at a Steam rinse that can completely clean components.
  • the respective drive elements G, G ', G "(FIG. 2) which are not illustrated in more detail, are designed so that in particular the metering cylinder 6 is in a position above its open position (FIG. 3, metering device 4.4). in the intended during the filling process Feed phase is displaced.
  • the metering piston 8 is adjustable so that it is located freely above the mouthpiece 13.
  • the metering device 4 is shown in a modified version, which is provided with a mouthpiece 13 ', which is axially displaceably supported in the lower end of the feed cylinder 16 under sealing.
  • the mouthpiece 13 ' together with the metering unit formed by the metering piston 8, the metering cylinder 6 and the valve piston 15, can be displaced axially from an upper starting position into the illustrated lowered dispensing position (movement arrow F).
  • the filling phase for the product P is shown analogously to the representation according to FIG. 2 (metering device 4.1), wherein the mouthpiece 13 'is correspondingly deeply immersed in a cup 5'.
  • the mouthpiece 13 'in the manner of a movable nozzle is particularly useful when the product P is introduced by a so-called bottom filling in the cup 5'.
  • a separate drive (not shown) for the mouthpiece 13 'provided to the mouthpiece 13' to move back to the upper initial position, not shown.
  • valve piston 15 is lowered to close the mouthpiece 13 'in the discharge opening 12' and then a suction cycle can be initiated analogously to the functional phase shown for the metering device 4.4 in Fig. 3.

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  1. Dispositif de dosage pour produits aptes à l'écoulement, en particulier des produits laitiers, comprenant un cylindre de dosage (6), un cylindre à soupape (7) disposé coaxialement à l'intérieur de celui-ci, un piston de dosage annulaire (8) mobile dans l'espace annulaire (9) entre le cylindre de dosage (6) et le cylindre à soupape (7) entre une position finale d'aspiration supérieure et une position finale de distribution inférieure, le piston divisant l'espace annulaire (9) en une partie supérieure, raccordée à un réservoir de produit (3), et une partie inférieure formant l'espace de dosage (11), comprenant un bec (13) fermant le cylindre de dosage (6) du côté inférieur jusqu'à une ouverture de distribution cylindrique coaxiale (12), et comprenant un piston central à soupape (15) qui peut être déplacé axialement entre une position de fermeture inférieure dans l'ouverture de distribution (12) du bec (13) et une position de libération supérieure, dans lequel le cylindre à soupape (7) forme en même temps le piston central à soupape (15), le cylindre de dosage (6) est disposé de façon coaxiale dans un cylindre d'amenée extérieur (16) raccordé du côté supérieur au réservoir de produit (3), et le cylindre de dosage (6) peut être déplacé axialement d'une position de fermeture inférieure, dans laquelle il termine l'espace de dosage (11) du côté extérieur, en prise frontale avec le bec (13), vers une position d'ouverture supérieure, dans lequel l'espace de dosage (11) communique avec l'espace d'amenée annulaire environnant (20) dans le cylindre d'amenée (16) par l'intermédiaire d'une ouverture d'amenée (21) entre l'extrémité frontale du cylindre de dosage (6) et le bec (13), caractérisé en ce que le cylindre de dosage (6) présente un organe d'entraînement (G) prédéfinissant sa position d'ouverture pendant l'opération de remplissage avec une hauteur d'aspiration variable (flèche D), de telle sorte qu'une ouverture de passage (21) formée entre l'extrémité frontale du cylindre de dosage (6) et le bec (13) avec une dimension de fente (S) variable peut être adaptée à la consistance du produit respectif.
  2. Dispositif de dosage selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le piston à soupape (15) et le cylindre de dosage (6) peuvent être déplacés axialement dans une position opérationnelle supérieure et le piston de dosage (8) peut être déplacé axialement dans une position opérationnelle inférieure, le piston à soupape (15) étant complètement rentré dans le cylindre de dosage (6), et les deux étant situés à une certaine distance au-dessus du piston de dosage (8).
  3. Dispositif de dosage selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que dans la position opérationnelle, le cylindre de dosage (6) se trouve dans une position au-dessus de sa position d'ouverture dans la phase d'amenée.
  4. Dispositif de dosage selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisé en ce que lorsque le piston de dosage (8) se trouve dans une position opérationnelle, il est libre au-dessus du bec (13).
  5. Dispositif de dosage selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 4, caractérisé en ce que le bec (13') s'appuie de façon axialement mobile dans la zone d'extrémité inférieure du cylindre d'amenée (16), de façon étanche, et peut être déplacé axialement en conjonction avec l'unité de dosage formée par le piston de dosage (8), le cylindre de dosage (6) et le piston à soupape (15) d'une position de départ supérieure à une position de distribution abaissée.
  6. Dispositif de dosage selon la revendication 5, caractérisé en ce que le piston à soupape (15), lorsque l'unité de dosage est fixée dans une position de distribution, peut être déplacé vers le haut dans sa position de libération.
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